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Interview with Sydda Essop: Karoo Kitchen
2016-02-17"Food, people and stories haunt me all the time. I am always intrigued and excited about what people eat wherever I find myself."
Die Skree van Stilte: 'n tweetalige onderhoud
2016-02-16"Die titel van die boek is 'n verwysing na die eindelose ruimtes hier, waar jy jou longe uit kan skree en niemand sal jou hoor."
New era for Vergenoegd unveiled
2016-02-12"The team has launched some new initiatives on the farm to complement the famed 'duck parade' – a morning and afternoon display of hundreds of Indian Runner ducks."
Bo-Kaap Kitchen: Q&A with Craig Fraser
2016-02-10"Bo-Kaap Kitchen is a collection of recipes from residents of the Bo-Kaap, the people who live in the area, those inhabitants who have a history there, a cultural connection to it. It is not a collection of recipes from a chef or a restaurant; this is food of and from the people. Not only is it their food, but it is also their stories, it is a slice of history through personal experiences."
Vladimir Nabokov
2016-02-10"Remainders of the day
locked away inside the
health of a scientific sun."
US Woordfees 2016 interview: Rainbow Scars by Mike van Graan
2016-02-09"Scars are not only physical. Hurt – and therefore, scars – may take emotional, psychological and intellectual forms too."
Murray’s Food Trails: Ranoushe, Lebanese Restaurant Bar, Waterfront, Cape Town
2016-02-08"It’s proof that some of the nicest dishes are from uncooked food, simple to make, and so tasty."
New writing: The break-up
2016-02-02"It was in this moment that I realised that I was missing something vital in this whole set-up. That there was a silence between us as well."
"What's a Gruffalo?" An interview about Julia Donaldson
2016-02-02"The Gruffalo, Julia’s most recognised title globally, has been translated into 43 languages (excluding the Zulu version currently in translation). Publishers understand that translations of children’s books are very important, for children to identify the words that they hear daily, see the words written down in books in their own language."
Vonani Bila
2016-01-27"Only do this I tell myself.
Write a poem for yourself.
That narrative is interspersed
With both despair and hope."
Book review: The seed thief by Jacqui L'Ange
2016-01-27"The Seed Thief is one of those rare books which deliver on all fronts and leave you completely satisfied."
US-konvokasie 2016: Courage, Compassion and Complexity - Reflections on the new Matieland and South Africa
2016-01-27"Ladies and gentlemen, something is brewing in South Africa. I do not know the name of that something, but I know that it is irreversible and will continue to brew and boil over, whether we give it permission to do so or not."
Jason Lloyd’s Open Letter to Redi Tlhabi
2016-01-22"Where was the evidence which suggested Van Rooyen's incompetence?"
University Seminar 2016: Achille Mbembe on the new politics of the South African student
2016-01-21"The students ... It’s a generation of people who are more and more convinced that they have been sold a lie ... And they are determined to put on the table some of the questions we have put under the carpet for a long time. All those difficult issues we have not tackled enough. And that shift, that cultural shift it seems to me is much more important than anything else, and it signals a new form of politics, at least on campuses."
Book review: In Our Own Skins: A Political History of the Coloured People
2016-01-19"In our own skins: Comfortable or itchy, but stuck with it."
Interview: Die Ju / 'hoan Tsumkwe Dialect / Prentewoordeboek vir Kinders / Children’s Picture Dictionary
2016-01-19"Research into our first people's languages is important for our national heritage."
"Your library is your soul": Reflecting on Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins
2016-01-19"A God in Ruins is many things. It is the story of a British family set against the historical background of the past century. It is a novel about war and its aftershocks. It is a fine inquiry into human nature. But above all, it is a declaration of love for literature, its power and its manifold mysteries."
This cannot go on
2016-01-13"And I ask: How would you feel, today, if your dad weren’t once allowed into Claremont at night? If you knew that your family had been systematically and purposely undermined for hundreds of years?"
Just Jinjer: "It was like making dinner with the family again"
2016-01-13"We have always been very open to criticism within the band, simply because we truly know and trust where we’re coming from with each other."